Daisy Rock Girl Guitars is supporting MusiCares, a charity founded by The Recording Academy, by donating a Wildwood Artist Deluxe to help a musician in need as part of MusiCares’ outreach program.
MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. Its services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and they treat each case with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly affect the health and welfare of the music community. There is an emergency financial assistance program, addiction recovery, and outreach program.
MusiCares is holding their annual Person of the Year Tribute Gala today as part of Grammy week. The recipient of the 2011 Person of the Year award is none other than the amazing Barbra Streisand and will be honored at the LA Convention Center. She is an eight-time Grammy winner and Grammy Legend and Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Streisand is the only artist ever to receive Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts, and Peabody Awards, as well as France’s Legion d’honneur and the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
The entertainment industry’s most glamorous and star-studded celebrities and artists attend the Person of the Year Gala. Past Person of the Year honorees such as: Tony Bennett, Bono, Natalie Cole, Phil Collins, David Crosby, Neil Diamond, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Elton John, Quincy Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young, also attend the yearly Gala.
For more, visit www2.grammy.com/MusiCares or daisyrock.com.